| The University of South Australia and the Adelaide
Technical High School Old Scholars Association celebrated the
centenary of the Brookman Building on 12 December 2003. This was a celebration of 100 years of educating professionals in the Brookman Building and an acknowledgement of the Adelaide Technical High School and its predecessor institutions as the longest occupants of the building (1903-1963). An Adelaide landmark, the Brookman Building is located on the corner of North Terrace and Frome Road. It is an imposing Federation-Gothic structure made of local bluestone and bricks. It was opened in 1903 to be used as a preparatory school for students entering the School of Mines (predecessor to the South Australian Institute of Technology and the University of South Australia) as they had been found to be ill-prepared for study. In 1914 this became the Junior Technical School which then changed its name in 1918 to Adelaide Technical High School. In 1963 Adelaide Technical High School moved to another site at Glenunga due to the limited space in the Brookman Building and the then South Australian Institute of Technology expanded into the Brookman Building space. Today the Brookman Building is part of the University of South Australia's City East campus and houses the City East library, the Centre for English Language at UniSA (CELUSA) and the South Australian Institute of Business Technology (SAIBT), and Brookman Hall is still used for important University functions.
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